Google Pixel Fold design may have just leaked in Android 12L

Google Pixel Fold design may have but leaked in Android 12L

(Epitome credit: Waqar Khan/Permit's Go Digital)

The latest version of Android 12L may have revealed some secrets of the Google Pixel Fold, based on discoveries by 9to5Google.

Android 12L is an upcoming Android 12 update that's modified for better use with the best foldable phones and best tablets running Android. And in the new development version, beta 2, there are new illustrations to assistance users get accepted to their new foldable, which look suspiciously like the rumored Pixel Fold.

Nosotros can run into in the animations a foldable with a SIM tray on the bottom edge and a prominent button on the correct side opposite the swivel. In the blitheness with the telephone unfolded, we can meet this is meant to be a book-style foldable as we expected the Pixel Fold to be, rather than a Galaxy Z Flip 3 or Motorola Razr 5G-fashion clamshell.

Still frames from an Android 12L beta animation, showing an open foldable phone that may be the Pixel Fold — (Epitome credit: 9to5Google)

Also notable is the overall shape of the phone in these animations. The outline looks squarer than the Milky way Z Fold 3, and more similar the shorter Oppo Discover N. Based on 9to5Google'south measurements, the screen ratio shown in this image seems to match up with the rumored 7.6-inch inner display of the Pixel Fold.

Still frames from an Android 12L beta animation, showing a closed foldable phone that may be the Pixel Fold — (Image credit: 9to5Google)

Adding weight to the thought of these illustrations representing the Pixel Fold is that they are referred to within the Os' code as "Pipit", the codename that apparently replaced the original "Passport" monicker for the Pixel Fold. While these easily could take been simply generic images to help users insert a SIM carte du jour, these Pipit references seem to suggest that'due south not the instance.

An Android 12L beta animation, showing a closed foldable phone that may be the Pixel Fold — (Prototype credit: 9to5Google)

One thing nosotros'll have to keep an eye on is if these animations really go far into the terminal version of Android 12L. And we also have to take that these animations, while seemingly bearing some resemblance to what we know of the Pixel Fold, could notwithstanding be meant to represent a generic foldable, albeit a Google-ified one.

An Android 12L beta animation, showing an open foldable phone that may be the Pixel Fold — (Prototype credit: 9to5Google)

We've heard other nuggets of information about the Pixel Fold. Information technology may use the same Tensor chipset as the Google Pixel half dozen, co-ordinate to benchmarks constitute in the Geekbench browser, but information technology may characteristic an older photographic camera set-upward based on data in the Google Camera app.

Assuming the Pixel Fold has non been canceled (as some sources have suggested), we nevertheless have no real thought of when it could launch. Here'due south hoping for a 2022 reveal so Google can provide some contest for the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4.

Richard is a Tom's Guide staff writer based in London, roofing news, reviews and how-tos for phones, gaming, sound and whatever else people need communication on. Following on from his MA in Magazine Journalism at the University of Sheffield, he's likewise written for WIRED U.K., The Register and Creative Bloq. When not at work, he'due south likely thinking most how to brew the perfect cup of specialty coffee.